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Polluted by sewage 1,245 times in 2024 lasting 6,637 hours
So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:00 AM) there has been 2,000 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Congleton, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Congleton in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.
Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Utilities | Cresswellshawe Brook Via Sws | LAWTON ROAD WESLEY AVE CSO 132CM | 106 | 1,091 | 97.2 |
| United Utilities | Kidsgrove Stream | LAWTON GATE WWTW | 72 | 788 | 98.4 |
| United Utilities | Kidsgrove Stream Wheelock | KIDSGROVE WWTW | 52 | 741 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Dane | HOLMES CHAPEL STW | 62 | 651 | 97.9 |
| United Utilities | Trent And Mersey Canal | MOSS LANE SANDBACH 138CF | 40 | 545 | 98 |
| United Utilities | Loach Brook | WEST HEATH PUMPING STATION | 52 | 502 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Dane | CONGLETON STW | 67 | 430 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Wheelock | SANDBACH WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 58 | 375 | 83.6 |
| United Utilities | Trent And Mersey Canal | THURLWOOD NO.1 PS | 38 | 237 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Dane | ALSAGER STW | 46 | 180 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Dane In Shaw Brook | BERISFORDS COMPOUND CSO 131G3 | 68 | 161 | 98.6 |
| United Utilities | River Dane Via Sws | BROMLEY RD CORONATION RD CSO 131GZ | 70 | 160 | 98.6 |
| United Utilities | River Dane Via Sws | THE GRANGE CONGLETON CSO | 72 | 145 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | River Dane | EATON BANK CSO 131S4 | 69 | 135 | 98.7 |
| United Utilities | Dane-In-Shaw Brook | MILL LANE CSO (134I5) | 39 | 104 | 99 |
| United Utilities | River Croco | COOKESMERE LANE | 16 | 70 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Arclid Brook | FRONT STREET CSO 13521 | 42 | 49 | 98.9 |
| United Utilities | Cresswellshawe Brk Via Sws | 29 CRESSWELLSHAWE RD A CSO 13567 | 39 | 43 | 98.2 |
| United Utilities | Valley Brook | 58/64 AUDLEY ROAD CSO | 33 | 37 | 95.6 |
| United Utilities | Trent | CHESTNUT AVENUE PS | 28 | 35 | 97.9 |
| United Utilities | Cresswellshawe Brook Via Sws | ASHEMORES LANE LAWTON RD CSO 131CE | 32 | 24 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | Unnamed River Wheelock | MIDDLEWICH ROAD CSO 131AD | 14 | 20 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | River Wheelock | MILL HILL LANE CSO 132F8 | 21 | 17 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | River Wheelock | HASSALL ROAD CSO 131X8 | 16 | 17 | 95.4 |
| United Utilities | River Wheelock | BROOKHOUSE GREEN WASTEWATER WORKS | 3 | 16 | 98.7 |
| United Utilities | River Croco | ALUM BRIDGE PUMPING STATION | 4 | 11 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Clvrtd Section Of Brook Mill | BROOK MILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 17 | 10 | 92.9 |
| United Utilities | River Dane | HAVANNAH STREET/ REDFERN AVE CSO | 16 | 9 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Day Green Stream | 113 HASSALL RD CSO | 12 | 9 | 99.1 |
| United Utilities | Valley Brook Via Sws | AUDLEY RD/TALKE RD JUNCTION CSO | 9 | 5 | 99 |
| United Utilities | River Dane Via Sws | BROMLEY ROAD CSO | 19 | 4 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | Cresswellshawe Brk Via Sws | 29 CRESSWELLSHAWE RD B CSO 13567 | 10 | 2 | 99.3 |
| United Utilities | Valley Brook | HASSALL RD CREWE RD CSO 131QJ | 3 | 1 | 98.5 |
| United Utilities | River Dane | DANE STREET CSO 131Q1 | 0 | 0 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | River Dane Via S/Water Sewer | SEFTON AVENUE CSO (CON0090) | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| United Utilities | River Wheelock | CREWE ROAD MILL LANE CSO 138CG | 0 | 0 | 99 |
| United Utilities | River Dane | SPRAGG ST WILLOW ST CSO CON0089 | 0 | 0 | 71.2 |
| United Utilities | Dane-In-Shaw Brook | CASTLE INN ROAD MOSSLEY CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.5 |
EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water
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